Space, astronomy, rockets and the physics of it all.
Thursday, September 24, 2026 (UTC)
The Sky & Telescopes
with Arjun Nair

VLT spots dark spot on Neptune from Earth for first time

Scientists using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile observed a dark spot on Neptune and a smaller bright point, the first such sighting from Earth.

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